Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Software, Application
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin, Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop powerful SDKs for Smart TVs and HbbTV, optimize JavaScript for outdated devices, and tackle debugging and test automation challenges to ensure high stability.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Stop building React apps that only run in the latest Chrome. Everyone can do that. Instead, make JavaScript run on a 5-year-old Smart TV with a crippled engine, limited memory, and a manufacturer's implementation of HbbTV that defies logic.
- Do this at smartclip.
- Stop being a component developer. Become a Platform Engineer. Join a guild of JS veterans. Stop fighting the browser - start conquering the fragmentation of the living room.
- Break the Browser Barrier: Take JavaScript into the wild. Build and optimise SDKs that perform flawlessly on Smart TVs, HbbTV, CTV, and DVB devices.
- Master the Legacy: Dive deep into VanillaJS. Command Prototypes and ES3-ES5. Make them fly.
- Engineer for Stability: Build a bulletproof testing suite. Kill the phrase "it works on my machine". Ensure your code survives thousands of different TV models.
- Hunt the Unhuntable: Debug issues that only appear on one specific OS version of one specific TV brand in one specific country. Find the pattern. Fix the root cause.
- Decode the Protocols: Master HbbTV, CTV, and DVB. Turn opaque specifications into elegant, high-performance code.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Leverage the Modern Stack: Use TypeScript and Node.js to bring structure to the chaos.
- Bonus XP (The Edge): Fight the battle with Smart TV / HbbTV / CTV / DVB. Deploy with Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. Read Grafana dashboards and Graylog traces like a map.
- Obsess Over Testing: Don't stop until every edge case is covered. Weaponise Mocha, Supertest, Puppeteer, and Playwright.
- Command Git: Make version control your second nature.
Experience
- Dominate JS Foundations: Bring 3+ years of professional engineering experience. Stop relying on frameworks—understand how JavaScript actually works under the hood (Prototypes, Event Loop, Memory).
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What we offer
- Ownership over tickets: You're trusted with real responsibility, not just tasks. No unnecessary bureaucracy, no micromanagement - we rely on you to take things forward.
- Build > Talk: We test what works - not what sounds good. Fail fast, learn faster.
- High standards, low ego: We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. Direct feedback, honest collaboration, no drama.
- Stay sharp: Hackathons, conferences, community - we invest in your growth and keep you at the cutting edge.
- And yes - the fundamentals are covered too: 30 days of vacation + Dec 24 & 31 off, Smart Fridays (4 days week possible), mobility (Germany ticket & JobRad), sports & health offerings, mental health support, corporate benefits, RTL+ access, and more.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
Work-Life-Integration
Topics that you deal with on the job
Job Locations
This is your employer
NORDDEICH TV Produktions-GmbH
NORDDEICH TV, a 100% subsidiary of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, produces high-quality programs for the group's channels. In addition to developing its own original ideas, NORDDEICH TV also acquires format rights from abroad and adapts them to German viewing habits. This way, viewers always have access to the latest content and topics from different cultures, tailored specifically for the German audience – persuasive, informative, and entertaining.
Description
- Company Size
- 1-49 Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Media, Publishing
Software Engineer - TV
- Location
- Berlin, Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
